{"product_id":"penance-9780063327856b","title":"Penance","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eFrom the author of the cult hit \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\"\u003eBoy Parts\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e comes a chilling, brilliantly told story of murder among a group of teenage girls—a powerful and disturbing novel as piercing in its portrait of young women as Emma Cline’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Girls.  \u003c\/span\u003eThe author was a finalist for the Women's Prize Futures Award for writers under thirty-five and was named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn a beach in a run-down seaside town on the Yorkshire coastline, sixteen-year-old Joan Wilson is set on fire by three other schoolgirls.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNearly a decade after the horrifying murder, journalist Alec Z. Carelli has written the definitive account of the crime, drawn from hours of interviews with witnesses and family members, painstaking historical research, and most notably, correspondence with the killers themselves. The result is a riveting snapshot of lives rocked by tragedy, and a town left in turmoil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut how much of the story is true?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCompulsively readable, provocative, and disturbing, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ePenance\u003c\/span\u003e is a cleverly nuanced, unflinching exploration of gender, class, and power that raises troubling questions about the media and our obsession with true crime while bringing to light the depraved side of human nature and our darkest proclivities.","brand":"Harper Collins Publisher","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42827251941456,"sku":"9780063327856B","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780063327856-l.jpg?v=1785909446","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/penance-9780063327856b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}